Improvement in running-gears



M. ATWOOD.

RUNNING-GEAR.

No. 191,017. Patented May 22,1877.

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N-PEYERS, FHOTO-LJTNOWFHER, WASHINGTON. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFF MOSES ATWOOD, on NEW SHARON, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUNNING-GEARS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [91,017, dated May 22, 1877; application filed March 24, 1877.

- the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a top view of the reach and axles of a wagon-gearing to which my improvement has been applied. Fig.2 is a side view of the same, partly in section, through the line :10 as, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish a running-gear which shall be so constructed that either of the wheels may rise above or sink below a level in passing over obstructions or depressions without straining the gearing or body.

The invention consists in the combination of the rounded forward part of the reach, the head-block, the fifth-wheel, the forward axle, the king-bolt, the brace, the collar, and the saddle with each other, in the manner hereinafter fully described. y

A is the reach, the rear end of which is secured to the rear axle E. The forward part of the reach A is rounded off, passes through the head-block B, and has a nut, a, screwed upon its forward end. The rounded forward part of the reach A also passes through an eye, d, formed upon the upper circle 1) of the fifth-wheel, the forward or straight part of which is securely bolted to the head-block B.

F is the lower circle of the fifth-wheel, which fits against the under side of the upper circle 1). The forward or straight part of the lower circle F is bolted to the forward axle G.

H is the king-bolt, the head of which is em.- bedded in the lower side of the head-block B, and which passes down through theupper circle 1), the lower circle F, the axle G, and the forward end of the brace I, and has a nut screwed upon its lower end.

The brace I is curved upward and rearward,

so as to pass beneath, and serve as a guide and Seat for, the lower circle F of the fifthwhcel; and its upper end is bent upward, and has an eye, 13, formed in it, through which the rounded forward part of the reach A passes.

To the rounded forward part of the reach A is secured a collar, 0, wh ch rests against the forward side of the eye'd of the upper circle D, to relieve the nut upon the forward end of the reach A from having to sustain all the draft.

- J is the saddle, to which the springs or the spring-bar of the wagon-body are attached, and upon the middle part of which are formed lugs, the forward one of which has a round hole formed through it to receive the rounded forward part of the reach A. The rear lug of the saddle J has a square hole formed through it, to receive a square formed upon the rounded forward part of the reach A, so as to hold the saddle J always parallel with the rear axle E, and thus keep the wagon-body and the gearing from being strained or twisted by the upward or downward movement of any of the wheels.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patout- The combination of the rounded forward part of the reach A, the head-block B, the fifthwheel D F, the forward axle G, the king-bolt H, the brace I, the collar 0, and the saddle J with each other, in substantially the manner herein shown and described.

MOSES ATWOOD.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. ROBERTS, E. A. KIBBE. 

